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ArticleExperimental and therapeutic medicine2021

Role of targeted and universal mupirocin-based decolonization for preventing surgical-site infections in patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Li Wang, Qi Ji, Xiaoyan Hu

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Article in Experimental and therapeutic medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Surveillance of nasalMicrobiology spectrum · 2025
    Observational
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Effects of preoperativeJournal of thoracic disease · 2022
    Article
  5. Surgical Site Infection in Cardiac Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Li WangDepartments of Operating Room, The First People's Hospital of Lianyungang City, Lianyungang, Jiangsu 222002, P.R. China.
Qi JiDepartments of Operating Room, The First People's Hospital of Lianyungang City, Lianyungang, Jiangsu 222002, P.R. China.
Xiaoyan HuDepartments of Tongguan Operating Room, The First People's Hospital of Lianyungang City, Lianyungang, Jiangsu 222002, P.R. China.
The First People’s Hospital of Lianyungang · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to provide a systematic literature review and pool evidence on the efficacy of mupirocin-based decolonization protocol in reducing surgical-site infections (SSIs) in patients undergoing cardiothoracic (CT) surgery based on their

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antibioticcardiac surgeryinfectionnasal carriersnosocomial infectionStaphylococcus aureus

Identifiers

PMID33747157
PMCPMC7967856
OpenAlexW3133313713

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